Garden Gate Sayings

#1. Papa," Alessandro said, his eyes closing. "She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.

Mark Helprin

#2. There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Fernand Point

#4. I'll bury you alive by her garden gate. I'll enjoy it. Every time she goes out in the morning, every time she comes home, she'll walk on your grave, and she'll know she's safe.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

#6. There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

Alice Hoffman

#7. When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.

Neil Gaiman

#8. I will go where I will go
And I will jettison all dead weight
And I will use these words for kindling
And I will sleep by the garden gate.

John Darnielle

#9. I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!

Charles Dickens

#10. I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Annie Lennox

#11. In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

Alexander Smith

#12. O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

Wendell Berry

#13. Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn't do himself a severe injury, and so he lives to embarrass me to death another day.

Louise Rennison

#14. The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.

Heinrich Heine

#15. When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'

Kathy Ireland

#16. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

#17. Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. All the Scarabae - all but one - were crowded in the garden. They watched her. Their grim
old faces gave away nothing. Like elderly kiddies at a play they did not understand yet knew to be
important, they regarded her as she stood behind the gate.
Goodbye, she thought. Goodbye for ever.

Tanith Lee

#19. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

David Levithan

#20. Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#22. No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em.

Kathryn Stockett

#23. No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.

Megan Fox

#24. Sometimes I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet. It's great when I'm in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, 'What the hell am I doing here?

George Harrison

#25. I didn't stop fighting," he said, the words so low he worried Kate wouldn't hear them, but she did. "I just got tired of losing. It's easier this way."

"Of course it's easier," said Kate. "that doesn't mean it's right.

Victoria Schwab

#26. That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Alice Hoffman